Herbal Research Institute inaugurated at KMU Peshawar

A modern Herbal Research Institute inaugurated at Khyber Medical University (KMU) Peshawar, aiming at to promote research on herbal plants, besides ensuring better healthcare. ANP senior leader and former Senator Muhammad Adeel along with Vice Chancellor of KMU Peshawar Professor Dr Mohammad Hafizullha unveiled the plague to inaugurate the institute.
Professor Dr Zahoor Ahmad Swati, President Pakistan Tibbi Council Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter and provincial leader of Jamaat-i-Islami Hakeem Abdul Waheed, Director IBMS, Professor Dr Jawad Ahmad, Registrar Dr Fazal Mahmood, faculty and a large number of students attended the inaugural ceremony.
The experts said World Health Organisation is giving more emphasis on promoting traditional medicine particularly in the third world countries. They said there are more than 8000 medicinal plants species in South Asia, out of which 2000 species exist in Pakistan. They further said more than 80 percent of the population of South Asia cannot afford the primary healthcare cost and they only rely on traditional uses of herbs even in the therapeutic anti-natal and post-natal cases.
Muhammad Adeel while speaking on the occasion said that medicinal plants would play a important role in a country's economy, especially for a country like Pakistan, where people are very poor and use of traditional medicine is yet to flourish on scientific grounds.
He praised the vision and hard work of VC KMU and said that due to his untiring efforts, he made decision to spent Rs 30 million on establishment on a unique research herbal institute by the name of his great father and a renowned freedom, fighter Hakeem Abdul Jalil Nadvi. He hoped that this research institute will provide an opportunities to the new researchers to explore new avenues of research on medicinal plants available in a big number here at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Earlier, VC KMU Professor Dr Mohammad Hafizullah thanked Haji Adeel for his generous support to establish a state of the art research herbal institute at KMU.